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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-21
And the Expenses Of This Long Journey Are
to Be Taken Out of the Meager Sum Appro-
priated for Schools of the Territory.
The Much-Abused "Boss" Shepard Now
Regarded as Public Benefactor.
Instances of Trickery Which Show that Re-
publicans Cannot Obtain Employment in
the Pension Bureau-General Notes.
DAWSON,s JUNKET.
He VIII Visit Alaska at the Expense OF thsA
Territorx,s Limited School Fund.

He VIII Visit Alaska at the Expense OF thsA
Territory's Limited School Fund.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal
WAsHsSGToN, July 2d-During tho discus
sious of the various appropriation bills at tho
capital last winter strenuous efforts were mads
by the friends of Alaska to induce the framerf
of the bills 20 make adequate provision for tbs
support of the common schools of the Territory.
In order to give their appeal more weight they
secured the services OF the Governor OF the Terri
tory Mr.. Swineford, and that gentleman made
an eloquent appeal in behalf of the Indians and
Aleuts who form the greater portion Of the pop
ulation whom he is appointed to rule
These efforts were only partly successful. and
the total amount appropriated for educational
purposes in Alaska was only $4,000. Governor
Swineford said before he left Washington thai
this sum was utterly inadequate, and he regret
ted the parsimony of Congress exceedingly ir
neclectne the educational wants of his people. In
spite of the meagre amount of the appropriation
il seems that even the small sum available is to
De still further decreased by outside expen
ditures and that it is to be drawn upon ts
furnish the means for q summer junket for at
least one United States official The First
Comptroller of tho Treasury has just decided
''that if the Secretary of the Interior decides
that it is necessary. the Commissioner Of Ednca-
tion may visit the schools or Alaska, ana tnat
the expenses Of the trip may be paid out of the
appropriation for the support of the schools OF
the Territory Under this opinion, Commits
sioner Dawson will start for Alaska this week
AS there are a full corps of United States Off.
cials, as we'll as several representatives Of
eleemosynary societies on the spot to see that
the funds are properly expended it seems to be
entirely unnecessary for Mr.. Dawson to neglect
his duties here during the time required to
make the trip. When it is considered that this
trip will cost in the neighborhood OF thousand
dollars, to be taken from the school fund.- 1t be-
comes positive wrong TO the people Of Alaska
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-21

LOUISVILLE, Ky, July 20-John Green. a
colored ex convict, now residing in Indiana. has
sued. in the federal court. a number of citizens
of Hart county, Kentucky charging them with
kukluxing him. The plaintiff alleges that in
July, 1886. number of citizens of Hart county
where he then lived, near Bonneville took him
hung him several times and otherwise meltreated
him. He names as defendants Bill johnson,
Peter Jaggers, Lad Dawson, Dock knight, Tom
NJ. Srygly. Slaughter Fugus and John Goodman,
and asks that they be compelled to pay him
$40, 900 damages. Green is supposed to have
been kukluxed for thieyiug
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-21
AMERICANS IN LONDON.
Some Distinguished People Who Celebrated
the Fourth of July Abroad.

SUIn6 DIsLIDEuIsheu People VINO CeIebrateu
the Fourth of july Abroad.
London letter IN Philadelphia Press
There has never been q more remarkable as
semblage of American lions of all sizes and both
sexes than were brought together by Mr.. Henry
Glllig, of the American Exchange, to celebrate
Independence day in party at Grosvenor Gal
1ery. For once the masterpieces of art that
hang upon the walls of hall and ante-room were
forgotten while the people who represented
every State and city in the Union
thronged about the more distinguished
of their countrymen The great spec
tacular feature of the evening, they say at
the circus, was the appearance on the floor, arm
in arm, of Mrs. John Bigelow and Buffalo Bill.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-21
Tho Shoe Dealers, Convention.

CHICAGO, July 20.-There not a large
crowd at the National Shoe Dealers convention
this morning, most Of the delegates having gone
off sightseeing. The first business to be trans
acted was the election of officers for the ensuing
year. The first ballot taken was for president
and Mr.. G. g. Pierce, of Chicago was elected,
with hut one dissenting voice. l.. l. Arkush, of
New York, made secretary, and +. H.
Tasker of Brooklyn, treasurer. Then gentle
man from each State in the Union was made q
vice president and general discussions in
order. A committee was appointed to br;
about the adoption of uniform system.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-21
Town Almost Destroyed.

MONTGOMERY. Ala, July 20-Tne Dispatchs
Tuscaloosa special says: ''The town of Bessemer
was almost totally destroyed by fire early this
morning. A lighted candle ignited the window
curtain in q boarding house. The house being
frame. was wrapped in flames. The wind
caused the flames TO spread rapidly to adjacent
buildings and twelve of the handsomest
structures in the city were entirely destroyed.
There fre-epgine in town. and citizens
who fought the flames suffered many sever Q
burns. Several persons missing and it is
supposed they perished in the flames. Loss un-
Known"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-21
How Germans Find out An About France

How Germans Find Out All About France.
London Daily Telegraph Paris Letter.
A curious fact has just been brought to light
at Arras. For the past four years NJ. Lieb has
been acting foreman in a large candle factory
in that town. He was active, intelligent and
rnuch esteemed A few days ago the police
asked him to show them the documents estab-
lishing his identity, in virtue of Investigation
which has lately been set OH foot by the govern
ment with a view to ascertaining the number of
foreigners residing in France. NJ Lieb left Ar
ras the same day for Belgium. and an inquiry
having been promptly instituted it was ascer-
tanned that he actually h cid the rank of cap
tain of German Uhlans. His friends then
naembered that he had been in the habit OF rising
early and taking long walks about the fo.tifca-
tsOna
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-21
Great Row ABOUT a small Matter.

LONDON. July 20.-Mr. Harry l.. w. Lawson.
the Gladstonian member for West ST. Pancras,
has created quite breeze by entering vigor-
protest against the action of certain Tory
peers in sending their carriages to convey voters
to the polls at the election in Hornsey yesterday
Precisely why they shouldn't have done so if
they wanted to, is not quite clear, but as it takes
little to raise a political row here, the matter
will probably be made the subject of angry dis
cussion until something else turns up to engage
the attention of the disputants,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-21
Kansas Crops Are Safe.

ELDoRADo, Kan. July 20.-Copious rains dur
ing the last twenty-four hours assure US an old
fashioned fifty to seventy five bushels to the
acre corn crop. The Associated Press agent
here has made most critical examination over a
wide area, and announces in the most positive
manner that corn and grass crop will be
Immense. and both are practically assured by
iD,a
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-21
The Tragedy at OIL City.

PITTsBURG. July 20.-A telegram from Oil
City conveys the intelligence that John Nc
Nerney. jr., and Officer James. victims of the
tragedy committed at that place last night aud
John McNerney the murderer, who was shot
while resisting arrest. died this morning. This
makes four victims of the bloody affair. Mrs.
McNerney having died last night McNerney
died in cell in the city prison.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-21
GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS.

The Long Disputed Afghan boundary Cues
tion FinalIy Settled.
ST. PETERSBURG. July 20-The Afghan boun-
dary question was settled to-day by the joint
British and Russian commission. By the xerms
Of the settlement Russia receives the territory
lying between the kusk and the Murghab rivers
and accepts the English frontier line on the
Oxus renouncing her claims to districts TO which
she would have been entitled by the terms of
arrangement made in ISS3 which she then re-
fused to accept. The protocols of the agreement
will be exchanged at formal meeting of the
commission Thursday or Friday, and Sir
West Ridgway and his fellow commissioners will
leave for London at the end of the week.
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less on the ground Henry Jaliai, promising
young native minister beaten about the
bead with musket and almost butchered. The
.Tyrant of Tonga he is called, has thrown
numbers of Wesleyans. ironed, into prison, and
has lately shot four innocent mon. 1t Is verl-
table reign of terror"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-21
MIR. Blaine,s Movements.

LONDON. July 20.-Mr. Blaine has changed
his programme, and will not attend the naval
review at Spithead. as he had intended. Sena-
tors Hawley aud Frye and Mr.. Murat Halstead
will accompany the diplomatic corps and wit
ness the evoIutions from a special steamer.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-21
SYlYanus Cobb. Jr.

BosroN, July 20.-Sylvanus Cobb. Jr., the
well.known story writer. died in Hyde Park to
day, OF pneumonia. He was born in 1923
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-03-18
MINOR NOTES.

In spite of all reports to the contrary, the
people of Plymouth church have not yet
discussed, much less decided upon, Mr..
Beecher's successor. Mrs Beecher will go
to Florida to spend some time by the advice
of her physicians.
Capt. Eads, the famous engineer who
built the great st. Louis bridge and the
Mississippi jetties, and projected a ship can
al across the Isthmus of Panama, died last
week of pneumonia at Nassau, Bahama Is
lands, where he had gone for his health.
Hon. NJ. B. Carpenter of Denver, who
has been unanimously elected president of
the Colorado senate, was captain of the
Barlow Grays of st. Adams dozen years
ago
The two yachts, "Dauntless" and "Coro-
net, got away last Saturday afternoon ON
their 3000-mile race across the ocean to
Cork harbor
News comes by way of London that a
carefully -arranged plot was laid to assassi-
nate the czar last Sunday as he was ON his
way to attend a service concentrating the
anniversary of his fathers birth.
Ex-Secretary Manning sailed for Europe
Tuesday morning, accompanied by his wife
and daughter, The voyage is taken in the
hope that the tonic of the sea air will ben
eft his health.
Senator and Mrs Morrill, and Miss Swan
sister of Mrs. Morrill,, have gone to Briar
field, Ala, in the Birmingham mineral sec
ton of that state. to visit Mr. James Nor.
rill son of the senator. From there they
go to Florida.
Eben +. Pillsbury, who died in Boston
Tuesday, was President Cleveland's ap
pointee as collector of internal revenu,
whom the senate rejected. He was tn,
leader of the Garcelon count out fasco il
Maine and was copperhead during tn,
war He was popular Democratic orator
and personally a gentleman.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-03-18
In answer 70 "Ob.eryer. D

M Editor: observer" of Putney,
seems TO have been in a Rip Van Wrinkle
sleep and to have walked up just in time to
hear of the Presidents veto of the Deepen
dent pension bill. In no other way can
account for the ignorance displayed in COB
servers" little TRADE on the President in
particular and the Democrats in general
the unterrifed, etc "As far as my obser-
walton" (which must be limited) Extends, "
etc, might include nine-tenths of the Re
publican party as well, except where they
can make political capital out of il. And
further, observer" says, ito all appear
ance it looks, " etc, still another evidence
of observers" long sleep, or he would
have known that President Cleveland, in
the two years that he has been in office, has
signed more pension bills than any Presi-
dent since the foundation of the govern
ment, Probably observers" long service
in the army during the late unpleasantness
entities him 10 the credit of sincerity in his
sympathy for the poor soldier, but it is
strange that the sympathy of a certain
class for the soldier was not expressed
when they had the power TO benefit him, in
stead of waiting until the wicked Demo
Gratis obtained power before waking up to
the fact that they needed help. READER.
Fast Dover, March 10, 1887.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-03-18
HOME NEWS.
meteorological Record.


a portion Of Mrs H. c. Wizards household
goods will be sold at auction next Monday at /
p ~, at the American House
Parties in want Of doors, sash and blinds
should not fail to call upon j. A. Church and get
his prices
To Rent. Modern house situated near the vii.
lage Apply to d. $ PRArr.
Buy Picture Frames Of Geddis
ARTISTIC Picture FRAMiNG at Clapp & Joness
Picture frames in great variety at A. F. widers.
Shop open evenings from : toS
Dinner at ~ O'Clock 25c at Bliss's
Lunches from Sc up at Bsss
Lodging from pc up at Bliss's
Meals cooked to order at Bliss
Table board, 81 meals, $500 per week at Bliss.
/ PICTURE FRAMES are cheap at Clapp y Jones's
/ ZOZO, THE MAGIC QUEEN.-A clean spec.
tacuar piece. A large house greeted the "zozo''
Company last evening and large house the play
deserved 1t is spectacular and highly attractive
and free from the objectionable features which
some believed It to possess. II cannot h, describ
ed like the drama and the opera, because il il the
succession Of remarkable scenic effects the con
nection Of which is not very apparent but which
constitute AN entertainment that is both novel and
pleasing. The company is talented one The
changes In the SCENERY are quickly produced. and
/ there has been nothing seen here 50 fine so per
feet In It's action and gorgeous in It's effects a,
the transformation scene at the close The def
is unique and the method Of producing the dis
solving view is also unique. Biftdlo, ~ V, Cour
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-03-18
The Ro.Ien Di.as,er.

The terrible railroad accident in Boston
on Monday will do much to confirm an i'm
preston which seems oftentimes to find
many things to support it, that disasters
and malign influences move in groups and
not singly. The 'old womens" saying in
our own boyhood used 10 be, "YOu1l never
hear of one accident but you'll hear of
three, but this season the charm of the
fatal three has been broken, unless, indeed,
we may find that the three appears both as
factor and multiple. Good iron, good wood,
and good engineering, however, are the
real factors which govern the question OF
bridge disasters, and the teaching of this as
of the previous dreadful slaughters of hu-
man life is that the fast, heavy trains and
powerful locomotives which the railroad
traffic Of to-day requires must be compile
mented with stronger and better material
more Of it, and more brains and conscience
in its use than was sufficient for the rail
reading Of even ten years ago. Every
reader will be struck with the similarity in
one respect between the Boston disaster and
that at Brattleboro last August. In both
cases the wrecked bridges were carried Sc
completely away that not a scrap was left
hanging 10 the abutments, and with nothing
except the wreck below TO show that O
bridge had ever been there. In both cases
too, the predisposing facts were probably
the same-that the bridges had been used
without sufficiently careful inspection for d
traffic which had gradually grown to be
more and heavier than they were originally
calculated To carry
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-03-18

Lieut-Gov Fuller has been in Benning-
ton this week as a member of the state
board of commissioners to buy site for
ing of the board was held at Rutland Mon
day night when it was voted to act con
temporaneously with the trustees of the
monument association in matters pertain
ing to the procuring of site and the cree
ton of monument The board spent Tues
day and Wednesday in Bennington with
the result that written refusal was taken
of five parcels of land for the monument
site, this constituting about one-half the
amount of land which it is proposed to ac-
quire. The remainder was left open to con
sideration by the commissioners and the
owners. The intention of the board is tc
procure site of about three acres in ex.
tent which will be laid out as a small park
in the centre of which the monument will
stand. The President of the United State,
and the Governor of Vermont have nov
jointly approved of the erection of a monu
ment $50 feet high, instead of one of 30C
feet as the association at first proposed
The reason for this change is that the boarC
of engineers, whose approval was required
reported to the President that the funds il
hand, SS2, 900, would not build monu
ment of more than $50 feet in height. I'm
der this decision Mr. Rim, the architect
whose design has been accepted, has beef
instructed to change his plans accordingl,
and to procure bids for the erection of
monument $50 feet high.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-03-18
IN SERIOUS TROUBLE

p. b. De Volts "Brattleboro tea store"
ON Elliot street has come 10 n sudden though
not altogether unexpected wind-up. Mr.
DE Wolf has been getting in trouble of late
with some of his creditors and last week he.
went 10 Boston to try, as is supposed, to eff
iect AN arrangement with tea firm which
he owed about $500. This firm arrested
him and held him in an officers charge at
hotel until Saturday, when, the promised
funds not being Forthcoming, he was lock
ed up. Whether he was arrested for OBJ
tanning goods under false pretences. or sim
ply as an absconding debtor, is not known
little before this he was arrested here by
New York dealer ON a charge OF obtaining
goods under false pretences, and was placed
under $500 bonds to appear at the next Sep
TENDER term of court De Wolf has been
in the tea business for something over two
years, but, though he has sold many goods
does not seem to have done a successful
trade at any time, probably through IN
buslness-like management He has been
assisted 70 funds by his father-in-law, G. q
koel OF West Dummerston, and about "A
year ago now Mr.. Roel paid up several hun
bred dollars worth of his market debts and
furnished him with funds TO continue ON
his promise 10 go only so fast as he could
pay IN future but he was soon in trouble
again, and the final result is as stated IL
Is understood that, all told, Mr.. Roel has
furnished DE Wolf some $1,000 in cash funds
and now very properly refuses 10 go furth-
er. On Monday he put an attachment ON
the goods and effects of the store in order
To save as much for himself as was possible
ana the goods were taken by Mr.. Herrick
To the town hall where they are now stored
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-03-18
STATE NEWS.

The Central Vermont railroad has begun
experimenting with an apparatus for heat
ing cars with steam from the engine.
A small son of p. Holmes of Fairbanks
Village (St. Johnsbury), while at play Sun
day fell into u bath pan Of hot water and
was burned 50 badly that it died.
The St Johnsbury and Lake Champlain
railroad company have again assumed
operation of the road, having received CON
troll of it from the Boston and Lowell cor
poration.
The executive committee of the Vermont
horse breeders association held "A meeting
at Burlington on Tuesday and fixed Septem-
Der 18th, Sth and 9Th as the date of the an
nua meeting this year, which will he held
at Rutland. The society's stakes, which
will be trotted for in the several classes,
were also fixed.
The will of Abraham Stearns of Wood
stock bequeaths $1,000 to St. James church,
the income of which is to go toward the
support of preaching, and $500 to the paro-
chial fund of the diocese of Vermont, the
income thereof TO he used for missionary
purposes.
The sixth session of the training school
for nurses will open at the Mary Fletcher
hospital in Burlington ON Thursday, May 3,
and continue four weeks Candidates for
admission must be between the ages of 20
and 40 and possess certain qualifications
stipulated for by the trustees.
A meeting of the butter tub makers of
Vermont and northern New York was held
in st. Adams recently for the purpose of
forming an association and establishing a
uniform schedule of prices to prevent ruin
Gus competition.
There has been a large shipment of horses
from Vermont 10 New York city this week
TO be sold by auction at the Kellogg sale,
which opened Tuesday and continues four
days. Moulton Brothers of West Randolph
sent a number, and l2 were to be sent from
Joseph Battell's Bread Loaf farm in Middle
bury, most of them being of Lambert stock.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-03-18

the fixtures and other wood work have been
painted in way 10 carry out and complete
the general effect. Van Doom & Morris
furnished the papers and b. +. Bakers ex-
cellent work in laying them and doing the
painting shows that such work need not be
gone out Of town for A noteworthy adj
dition 10 the store fixtures or apparatus is
the introduction Of a complete electrical mp
pnratus with which every bottle in the store
which contains poisonous liquid is con
nected, and when such a hottie is taken
from the shelf or moved from its place an
alarm is sounded on bell at the prescrip-
ton counter. Cupboards which contain all
poisons not in liquid form are also connected
with the electric circuit and continuous
alarm is sounded if their door is opened.
The danger Of mistake in the use of poisons,
or their substitution for other drugs, is thus
reduced TO a mnimum-an element Of safe
ty which the public will appreciate. The
apparatus is an ingenious one, and while
the idea Of its introduction was original
with Mr. Chaplin, Mr. Clary, the electrician,
has given il form and invented and carried
out its details in very skilful manner.
The young people of st. Michael's Ro-
man Catholic parish celebrated st. Patrick's
day in very happy way last evening by
an entertainment given at Crosby hall
The play Kathleen MdrOurueen was pre-
scented, the children Of st. Michaels school
singing selections between the acts and the
First Regiment orchestra furnishing the in
strumental accompaniment The cast Of
the play was excellent and the leading parts
/ were admirably sustained Miss Nellie
Fenton appeared in the title role with =.
NJ Baker as Terence OAIore, the hero, Dan
Sullivan as Bernard Kavanagh, the villain,
who was not so bad a villain after all, j. f.
Carey as the priest, 4. \. Austin as Capt.
Cleareld, John Perry as David OCOnnor
the bluff old farmer, r. =. Mcclure as
Black Rody the murderer, with John Cav
anaugh and Dan Curtin As Red Barney and
Darby Doyle his accomplices and fun max
ers in general, Ed Carey as Bill Button
Cap, in love with Kitty O'Lavery, and Kate
Bowler and Nora Cavanaugh as lady and
servant The play had been 50 carefully
prepared that it was free from the breaks
and delays which mark many amateur per
formanccs aud the audience which filed
every seat and occupied every foot of
standing room were quick and constant in
their appreciation and applause. The even
ing closed with "A dance in which about 20
couples participated
The following are the letters remaining
unclaimed in the Brattleboro Office Mch. ~
Nltn e \ Bemment W q Bruce, j " Connolly.
Myron Chase James Common John - Deavtt,
Chas Fade, Chas Forrest Clinton j Goodar,
HrunuIn Giuslprg. Burton KNIGHT. /, - Kenny.
Chas La Duke :. Harvey Kpycr, . NJ Russell, Chas
= smith, Richard Sawyer, Walter Smonds Al
lrit Whit,
Women Mrs Henry Almond. Julia Dunn. MIR.
llullah Horton, Mrs Arthur Kellogg, Miss Georgia
MUsher, Mrs Pumelia Miles, Mary O'Connurs Mr~
Media parkes, Mrs Alma Wells
Miscellaneous Min Green. cars Of Mrs lIetty
Green; j Frost Co. Thompson q Morris